Ginger Snaps (2001)

hyped garbage

Did you people see the same film I saw?

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Parts 2 and 3 combined don't add up to any give ten minutes of this film. While not very scary, it IS very well made, and the acting holds up strong. The casualties may be a bit over the top, but some people here get what is coming to them, as one would expect from a horror film.

Continuing to review werewolf movies in chronological order, I'm now at 2000 with this, an independently-made movie from Canada being the tale of two teen sisters-Ginger (Katharine Isabelle) and her one-year younger one Brigitte (Emily Perkins). They're both fascinated with depictions of death to the point of photographing each other in various ways of deadly accidents. Then Ginger gets bitten by a wolf while she and her sis are walking down the road...This was both horrifyingly scary and a little funny (I dug that scene of that school nurse giving advice on menstruation). And seeing Mimi Rogers as the deadpan mom was also a hoot to watch especially after she's told what's going on! So on that note, I highly recommend Ginger Snaps.

Living together in a small town, two sisters find the creature hunting them down is one of them who got turned into a werewolf and must find a way to contain the ravenous beast within before more of their friends are killed.Frankly this one turned out to be somewhat of a disappointment. The film's main problem here is also one of its best features in the connection between the onset of woman-hood with the curse of lycanthropy which is the big guise in this one. It associates some of the normal conditions of burgeoning femininity as the potential signs of lycanthropy, from the introduction of the feminine status, their biology starting to give away their conditions and the sudden outburst of aggressive behavior seems to be all consistent with the changes found in this situation, and the trade-off with the lycanthropy traits is something that's fun and unique to this one. That said, none of these are really all that enjoyable as they take the focus off the horror to such an extent that the film instead paces along quite dreadfully by remaining stuck with these teen-angst drama scenes that are just not that exciting. The scenes of the two girls lamenting their high-school situation, how they're concerned with that project of life-like death photographs of themselves or the utterly bland and boring school-yard meandering are not that exciting and really make it hard to care all that much about the girls or their condition in the first half and really makes it hard to buy into this one as a horror movie at times. Thankfully, what saves this one is the film's fleeting horror moments as there's numerous pretty well-timed scares and suspense in here which really brings this one up considerably. The initial playground attack is simply stellar with the hairy beasts' rapid movements an inhuman growling giving the impression of something running around that's hidden enough to make it a mystery about its identity while offering plenty of suspenseful tactics of them chasing off into the woods. The later attacks offer up plenty of gruesome attacks alongside some rather fun times here with the attacks at school on the personnel, the party scenes are a lot of fun with the seduction coming off rather nicely before the initial transformation scene and the big one that works well here is the finale at the house. Finally letting the werewolf loose, getting some impressive stalking as she follows the blood trail through into the basement and some fantastic action all together for a spectacular scene that serves as the highlight here. Lastly, the design for the wolf is a bit more modern, with a large head, lean body that has more wolf-like qualities than most previous werewolf designs yet still retains the vicious appearance and attitude that make it something to be feared and respected while looking somewhat original here as well. These here are the film's overall positives.Rated R: Graphic Violence, Graphic Language, Brief Nudity, drug use, several scenes of animal violence and detailed discussions and events about puberty.

This is in fact a witty teenager comedy full of black (and unmistakably Anglo-Saxon) humor, sexual metaphors, goth elements and a liberal amount of splatter. It masquerades itself as a horror movie, but really, the horror element is just a metaphor for female puberty, the pangs of growing-up and the loss of innocence.If you enjoy pastiches like "An American werewolf in London", only a bit gorier and tighter, you will have a good time with 'Ginger snaps' . However, if your idea of horror is bound to Lovecraft and other classics of the genre, if you demand a logically consistent plot and credible, realistic reactions from the characters, and any hint of comicality spoils the concentration you are investing in the build-up of the atmosphere, you'll be irritated in a matter of minutes. I was.In this movie there are plot holes as large as block buildings, dialogues are meant to be wickedly funny rather than scary or evocative, and no effort is invested in realistic behavior on the part of the characters - if you knew that your sibling is affected by a mysterious illness that's transforming her body, threatening her life and turning her in a deadly menace, would you attempt to treat her with silver rings and wolf bane while chirping quaint teenager banter, or would you call in the doctors and the police? I realize that viewers interested in alternative fiction might be surprised and delighted by this movie. That's the only reason why I allot it four stars. As a pure horror movie, however, Ginger is and remains an unmitigated disaster.